MAD’s Annual Visionaries! Gala and Awards _ November 30, 2010
Wall Street Legend and MAD Trustee, Seth Glickenhaus, Design Pioneer
George Beylerian, Business Leader Dan Doctoroff, and Artisan/Entrepreneurs Janet Nkubana and Joy Ndungutse to be Honored
NEW YORK, NY (November 11, 2010) – On Tuesday, November 30, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will host its Visionaries 2010! Gala, celebrating five exceptional individuals for lifetime achievement and contributions to the arts, design, and education. This year’s honorees are:
Seth Glickenhaus, a Wall Street legend, founding trustee of the Museum, and a generous patron of the arts and education
George Beylerian, a pioneering design retailer, collector, and founder and CEO of the design consultancies, Material ConneXion and Culture & Commerce
Dan Doctoroff, President of Bloomberg LP, former Deputy Mayor of New York City, and a champion of the arts as an economic generator
Janet Nkubana and Joy Ndungutse, artist and social entrepreneurs, who founded the Rwandan basket weaving collaborative Gahaya Links. The company’s Peace Baskets are featured in MAD’s recently opened exhibition The Global Africa Project
“We are particularly excited to be honoring founding trustee Seth Glickenhaus this year, together with design icon George Beylerian, business leader Dan Doctoroff, and artisan/entrepreneurs Janet Nkubana and Joy Ndungutse because their achievements are central to the Museum’s mission of fostering an appreciation of contemporary art, craft, and design,” says Holly Hotchner, the Museum’s Nanette L. Laitman Director.
Held for the second year at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Visionaries! begins with a cocktail reception and silent auction of artworks specially made by artists who have been represented in exhibitions at MAD over the last two years. The awards ceremony follows, and then dinner. The Visionaries! Gala is the Museum’s most important annual fundraiser supporting MAD’s exhibitions and educational programs. Each year, more than 500 guests, including arts patrons, artists, designers and noted corporate and civic leaders, attend the event. For more information, please call Stephanie Lang, 212.299.7729 or email Stephanie.lang@madmuseum.org.
About the Honorees
Seth Glickenhaus, founder of the venerable Wall Street firm that bears his name, has served on the board of trustees of the Museum of Arts and Design for two decades. The 96-year-old Glickenhaus has a singular perspective on the ways of Wall Street. Thanks to his long life, he has witnessed and analyzed the rise and fall of many a financial market, from the Crash of 1929 to the Global Meltdown of 2008. He’s also a man who has always understood the value of education, especially arts education. During his tenure, Glickenhaus has been a major voice in defining the Museum’s education programs. In acknowledgement of his abiding interest in and support, MAD has named its Museum classrooms, where some 10,000 children and students annually receive instruction in art making, the Sarah and Seth Glickenhaus Education Center.
George M. Beylerian is a legendary trailblazer in the field of contemporary design. Whether as an importer, retailer, curator, author, entrepreneur or general impresario, over the past 40-plus years, this Cairo-born Armenian-American has worked tirelessly to nurture design in the United States and abroad. Today, as founder and CEO of Material ConneXion, a revolutionary global materials consultancy and materials library, and Culture & Commerce, a business incubator and management firm for such design talent as Yves Behar, Philippe Starck, and Marcel Wanders, Beylerian continues to shape the face of design and material innovation in the twenty-first century.
Daniel L. Doctoroff is President of Bloomberg, L.P., a leading global provider of financial data,
analytics and news. Doctoroff was previously Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and
Rebuilding for the City of New York. After 9/11, under the leadership of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Doctoroff led the city’s dramatic economic resurgence, with a comprehensive economic development strategy. He also led the creation of PlaNYC, the most extensive plan to strengthen an urban environment ever undertaken by an American city. Prior to joining the Bloomberg administration, Doctoroff served as Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners, a major private equity investment firm. Prior to joining Oak Hill, Doctoroff was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers.
Janet Nkubana and Joy Ndungutse are the sisters behind Gahaya Links, a company which they set up in Rwanda in 2004 to empower rural women, who had been widowed and impoverished by the war. The company’s beginnings were modest: a small band of women weaving traditional Agaseke baskets under a tree. Yet it was the aim of these sisters, skilled weavers and natural entrepreneurs, to market these baskets in the United States and to establish a global business. Today, Gahaya Links works with 4,500 artisans in 52 cooperatives and associations established across Rwanda, creating employment where none had existed, increasing the income of thousands of rural families, and improving the quality of life for thousands of women whose lives were torn apart by civil and ethnic strife, as well as keeping traditional basket weaving skills alive.
Read MoreGeorge Beylerian, Business Leader Dan Doctoroff, and Artisan/Entrepreneurs Janet Nkubana and Joy Ndungutse to be Honored
NEW YORK, NY (November 11, 2010) – On Tuesday, November 30, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will host its Visionaries 2010! Gala, celebrating five exceptional individuals for lifetime achievement and contributions to the arts, design, and education. This year’s honorees are:
Seth Glickenhaus, a Wall Street legend, founding trustee of the Museum, and a generous patron of the arts and education
George Beylerian, a pioneering design retailer, collector, and founder and CEO of the design consultancies, Material ConneXion and Culture & Commerce
Dan Doctoroff, President of Bloomberg LP, former Deputy Mayor of New York City, and a champion of the arts as an economic generator
Janet Nkubana and Joy Ndungutse, artist and social entrepreneurs, who founded the Rwandan basket weaving collaborative Gahaya Links. The company’s Peace Baskets are featured in MAD’s recently opened exhibition The Global Africa Project
“We are particularly excited to be honoring founding trustee Seth Glickenhaus this year, together with design icon George Beylerian, business leader Dan Doctoroff, and artisan/entrepreneurs Janet Nkubana and Joy Ndungutse because their achievements are central to the Museum’s mission of fostering an appreciation of contemporary art, craft, and design,” says Holly Hotchner, the Museum’s Nanette L. Laitman Director.
Held for the second year at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Visionaries! begins with a cocktail reception and silent auction of artworks specially made by artists who have been represented in exhibitions at MAD over the last two years. The awards ceremony follows, and then dinner. The Visionaries! Gala is the Museum’s most important annual fundraiser supporting MAD’s exhibitions and educational programs. Each year, more than 500 guests, including arts patrons, artists, designers and noted corporate and civic leaders, attend the event. For more information, please call Stephanie Lang, 212.299.7729 or email Stephanie.lang@madmuseum.org.
About the Honorees
Seth Glickenhaus, founder of the venerable Wall Street firm that bears his name, has served on the board of trustees of the Museum of Arts and Design for two decades. The 96-year-old Glickenhaus has a singular perspective on the ways of Wall Street. Thanks to his long life, he has witnessed and analyzed the rise and fall of many a financial market, from the Crash of 1929 to the Global Meltdown of 2008. He’s also a man who has always understood the value of education, especially arts education. During his tenure, Glickenhaus has been a major voice in defining the Museum’s education programs. In acknowledgement of his abiding interest in and support, MAD has named its Museum classrooms, where some 10,000 children and students annually receive instruction in art making, the Sarah and Seth Glickenhaus Education Center.
George M. Beylerian is a legendary trailblazer in the field of contemporary design. Whether as an importer, retailer, curator, author, entrepreneur or general impresario, over the past 40-plus years, this Cairo-born Armenian-American has worked tirelessly to nurture design in the United States and abroad. Today, as founder and CEO of Material ConneXion, a revolutionary global materials consultancy and materials library, and Culture & Commerce, a business incubator and management firm for such design talent as Yves Behar, Philippe Starck, and Marcel Wanders, Beylerian continues to shape the face of design and material innovation in the twenty-first century.
Daniel L. Doctoroff is President of Bloomberg, L.P., a leading global provider of financial data,
analytics and news. Doctoroff was previously Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and
Rebuilding for the City of New York. After 9/11, under the leadership of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Doctoroff led the city’s dramatic economic resurgence, with a comprehensive economic development strategy. He also led the creation of PlaNYC, the most extensive plan to strengthen an urban environment ever undertaken by an American city. Prior to joining the Bloomberg administration, Doctoroff served as Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners, a major private equity investment firm. Prior to joining Oak Hill, Doctoroff was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers.
Janet Nkubana and Joy Ndungutse are the sisters behind Gahaya Links, a company which they set up in Rwanda in 2004 to empower rural women, who had been widowed and impoverished by the war. The company’s beginnings were modest: a small band of women weaving traditional Agaseke baskets under a tree. Yet it was the aim of these sisters, skilled weavers and natural entrepreneurs, to market these baskets in the United States and to establish a global business. Today, Gahaya Links works with 4,500 artisans in 52 cooperatives and associations established across Rwanda, creating employment where none had existed, increasing the income of thousands of rural families, and improving the quality of life for thousands of women whose lives were torn apart by civil and ethnic strife, as well as keeping traditional basket weaving skills alive.
